Constance Jaquay Strickland
mercy: An Ode to Black Women's Free Labor
Constance Jaquay Strickland
This live performance that honors the unpaid labor of Black women across generations explores how survival, resistance, and grace live in the body, while asserting that safe and dignified work is a human right. Audiences should look for how movement carries memory and how the body tells stories, history tries to silence.
Constance Jaquay Strickland is a Los Angeles–based transdisciplinary and durational artist. Since 2013, her experimental work has investigated the mental health of women who often go unseen and without empathy, using the body as a portal and vessel. Through movement, physical photography, and filmmaking, she traces memory, migration, and the weight of inherited labor.